“It is pivotal to build up a corruption-resilient environment at the National Defence System that combines different specific institutions and employs over 11 thousand career military personnel and 3 thousand civilian personnel. It is worthwhile to resource proportionately in order to achieve the transparency goals set,” says Minister of National Defence Arvydas Anušauskas.

The primary directions of the Group are set out to arrange the involvement of institutions of the National Defence System and their units in anti-corruption resilience activities and to increase corruption awareness among all National Defence System civilian and military personnel. Other activities also include the identification of corruption probability level at the most risk-prone areas and the arrangement of risk mitigation.

“People’s behaviour depends on their honesty and motivation. We have always aimed at strengthening it as national defence is the property generated with the money of taxpayer money of the national budget,” the minister says.

The Corruption Prevention and Investigation Group will be also responsible for investigation of infringements of law of a corruptive nature. The Group will be directly subordinate and accountable to the minister of national defence.

The new Law on Corruption Prevention came into force on 1 January 2022, which allows a systemic anti-corruption measures and avoids fragmented governance.

Aside from other changes, it allows for the public sector entities to ensure corruption and their subordinate entity prevention, defines the rights, responsibilities and activity guarantees for those responsible for corruption resilience, and develops corruption prevention measures (e.g., introduces a measure to identify the level of corruption resilience).

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